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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David G. Russell is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with substantial contributions in Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Immunology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Their publication record includes a range of recent papers with diverse coauthors and venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Dual RNA-Seq of Mtb-Infected Macrophages In Vivo Reveals Ontologically Distinct Host-Pathogen Interactions (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Single cell analysis of M. tuberculosis phenotype and macrophage lineages in the infected lung (2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine)
  • Parental Factors Associated With the Decision to Participate in a Neonatal Clinical Trial (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • The Tuberculosis Drug Accelerator at year 10: what have we learned? (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Host stress drives tolerance and persistence: The bane of anti-microbial therapeutics (2024, Cell Host & Microbe)

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Davide Pisu
  • Nelson V. Simwela
  • Cathy Grisby
  • Kristin Kirker
  • Stephanie L. Merhar

Publications are often found in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports

David G. Russell was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007. This distinction reflects a level of peer acknowledgment within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Disseminated tuberculosis in interferon gamma gene-disrupted mice.

    Andrea M. Cooper;Dyana K. Dalton;Timothy A. Stewart;John P. Griffin

  • Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and mice requires the glyoxylate shunt enzyme isocitrate lyase

    John D. McKinney;John D. McKinney;John D. McKinney;Kerstin Höner Zu Bentrup;Kerstin Höner Zu Bentrup;Kerstin Höner Zu Bentrup;Ernesto J. Muñoz-Elias;Andras Miczak;Andras Miczak

  • Lack of acidification in Mycobacterium phagosomes produced by exclusion of the vesicular proton-ATPase

    Sheila Sturgill-Koszycki;Paul H. Schlesinger;Prasanta Chakraborty;Pryce L. Haddix

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis : here today, and here tomorrow

    David G. Russell

  • Foamy macrophages and the progression of the human tuberculosis granuloma.

    David G Russell;Pere-Joan Cardona;Mi-Jeong Kim;Sophie Allain

  • Who puts the tubercle in tuberculosis

    David G. Russell

  • On the molecular mechanism of chloroquine's antimalarial action.

    David J. Sullivan;Ilya Y. Gluzman;David G. Russell;Daniel E. Goldberg

  • Tuberculosis: What We Don’t Know Can, and Does, Hurt Us

    David G. Russell;Clifton E. Barry;JoAnne L. Flynn

  • Elemental analysis of Mycobacterium avium-, Mycobacterium tuberculosis-, and Mycobacterium smegmatis-containing phagosomes indicates pathogen-induced microenvironments within the host cell's endosomal system.

    Dirk Wagner;Jörg Maser;Barry Lai;Zhonghou Cai

  • Formation and intracellular localization of hepatitis C virus envelope glycoprotein complexes expressed by recombinant vaccinia and Sindbis viruses.

    J Dubuisson;H H Hsu;R C Cheung;H B Greenberg

  • Caseation of human tuberculosis granulomas correlates with elevated host lipid metabolism

    Mi-Jeong Kim;Helen C. Wainwright;Michael Locketz;Linda-Gail Bekker

  • Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo segregates with host macrophage metabolism and ontogeny.

    Lu Huang;Evgeniya V. Nazarova;Shumin Tan;Yancheng Liu

  • Cytokine Activation Leads to Acidification and Increases Maturation of Mycobacterium avium -Containing Phagosomes in Murine Macrophages

    Ulrich E. Schaible;Sheila Sturgill-Koszycki;Paul H. Schlesinger;David G. Russell

  • Intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits host-derived fatty acids to limit metabolic stress.

    Wonsik Lee;Brian C. VanderVen;Ruth J. Fahey;David G. Russell

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Invasion of Macrophages: Linking Bacterial Gene Expression to Environmental Cues

    Kyle H. Rohde;Robert B. Abramovitch;David G. Russell

  • Leishmania species: models of intracellular parasitism.

    J. Alexander;A.R. Satoskar;D.G. Russell

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the environment within the phagosome.

    Kyle Rohde;Robin M. Yates;Georgiana E. Purdy;David G. Russell

  • Trafficking and release of mycobacterial lipids from infected macrophages.

    Wandy L. Beatty;Elizabeth R. Rhoades;Heinz-Joachim Ullrich;Delphi Chatterjee

  • Mycobacterium-containing phagosomes are accessible to early endosomes and reflect a transitional state in normal phagosome biogenesis.

    S Sturgill-Koszycki;U E Schaible;D G Russell

  • Intracellular trafficking in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium-infected macrophages.

    Songmei Xu;A. Cooper;S. Sturgill-Koszycki;T. Van Heyningen

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Rhoades
Elizabeth Rhoades University of Pennsylvania
Robert S. Heyderman
Robert S. Heyderman University College London
James C. Sacchettini
James C. Sacchettini Texas A&M University
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Wandy L. Beatty
Wandy L. Beatty Washington University in St. Louis
William R. Jacobs
William R. Jacobs Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Fong-Fu Hsu
Fong-Fu Hsu Washington University in St. Louis
Malcolm E. Molyneux
Malcolm E. Molyneux Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Ulrich E. Schaible
Ulrich E. Schaible Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Stephen B. Gordon
Stephen B. Gordon Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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